entrepreneurship, and also to identify unresolved issues. It is argued that the nature of ‘opportunity’, and the cognitive basis of …

Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics …. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that …

growth. The study distinguishes between four different categories of locations: metro cities, metro regions, urban areas, and …

influence of family ownership on small business growth remain scarce and suffer from several shortcomings. To remedy these … business growth. First, this study shows that there is a negative, although non-monotonic, relationship between family … ownership and small business economic growth. Second, it explores the channel through which family ownership affects firm growth …

and growth. The empirical evidence obtained allows us to conclude that: (1) age and size are restrictive factors of the … growth of young SMEs, but they are not important for the growth of old SMEs; (2) cash flow and debt are of greater relative … importance for growth in young SMEs than for growth in old SMEs; (3) R&D intensity and labour productivity are of greater …

This paper investigates the contribution of small firms to employment, job creation, and growth in developing countries … highest sales growth and employment growth, even after controlling for firm age. Large firms, however, have higher … productivity growth. Conditional on size, young firms are the fastest growing and large mature firms have the largest employment …

empirical analysis, using an extensive firm-level data, suggests that the impact of business subsidies on employment growth … differs more between high-growth start-ups and other firms than between start-ups and incumbents. On average, all subsidies … relate positively to the contemporary employment growth for both start-ups and incumbents. Furthermore, after subsidy …